I’m so proud of Chan and what he has accomplished. He deserves every little bit of success that he gets because he’s a really wonderful person and a great husband. He’s just very supportive in all ways.

Her career hasn’t exploded like her husband’s, but she doesn’t seem to mind.

She said:

…it’s never been a competition. It’s never been anything like that for us. We are just really supportive of each other.

2. She Started as a Backup Dancer for Janet & Joined Her at Strip Clubs

At the time, the 19-year-old accompanied Janet Jackson to strip clubs, after their performances.

I don’t know what it is, but her whole thing after the show is, ‘Let’s go to a strip club!’ Everyone wants to go to strip clubs all over the world. The thing is, I was 19 and I was on tour and I was completely naïve, hadn’t seen the world… We went to gay strip clubs. It was kind of crazy.

It’s always sort of there, which is really wonderful. It takes you a little bit, maybe a few classes or a few hours, to get your body back to where you’re in dancing shape, but it’s always sort of right there for me. It’s kind of right under the surface.

My first go at drinking did not go so well. [Laughs.] I ended up getting sick in front of everybody. You know that Ginuwine song “Pony”? It was playing at the party while I was getting sick. My entire senior year, everyone sang that around me. For a year. I would like that erased from my memory.

I was actually working at the time so I wasn’t able to make it to my own reunion, but I had the same thought. I thought, Should I go? I sort of see the people I want to when I go home to Texas, but it would be nice to see the other people… I just wanted to see how certain things changed.

4. She’s Into Animal Rights

In the above video she made for PETA, she revealed that she does not purchase any accessories made from animal skin.

She actually had snake-like bodypaint applied to make it clear that millions of snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and other reptiles are killed for their skins for the fashion industry.

Angela Barbutistarted her reporting career in the seventh grade at her middle school newspaper in Queens. She covers celebrities, movies and television for Heavy. She's had lunch with Tony Danza, and Dave Franco said he liked her accent. Reach her at angela@heavy.com or follow her on Twitter @angciao.June 11, 2014 5:29 pm